Check and slip printing cash-register.



No. 833,825. PATENTED 00123, 1906,. J. P. GLEAL,

CHECK 'AND SLIP PRINTING CASH REGISTER.x

APPLIGATION FILED 1.5.8.16, 1904.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

. PATENTED OCT.-23, 1906.

J.P.GLEALL CHECK AND SLIP PRINTING CASH REGISTER.

APPLICATION I'ILIEII) MAR. 16, 1904.

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witwe'ooezy No. 833,825. I PATENTED OCT. 23, 1906.

' JLP. CLEAL,

CHECK AND SLIP PRINTING CASH REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAB-.15; 1904.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 3.

Wane/ans UNITED STATES PATENT orrron.

JOSEPH P. CLEAL, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR, BY ASSIGN- MENTS, T0 NATIONAL CASH REGISTER COMPANY, OF DAYTON OHIO, ACORPORATION OF OHIO, (INCORPORATED IN 1906.)

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 23, 1906.

Application filed March 15. 1904. Serial No. 193.248.

T0 all whom/it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosEPH P. CLEAL, a

citizen ofthe United States, residing at Day-' ton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Check and Sli Printing Cash-Registers, of which I dec are the following to be a. full, clear, and exact descri tion.

's invention has more particular reference to that class or type of machines known as department-registers, because of providing for a classification of transactions ac cording to .the de artments of a business; and the invention as in contemplation the printing and issuance of checks fora certain class or certain classes of transactions and the printing of inserted slips for other classes of transactions.

It is customary in machines of the type mentioned to provide selecting means which are first 0 erated to efiect the proper classification o the transaction, and the principal object of my present invention is'to provide printing mechanism which will be-governed in its functions-by said selecting means.

More specifical y stated, the purpose is to rovide a cash-register which will'print and issue checks in certain adjustments of the selecting means, whereas in other adjustments the check-issuing mechanism will be automatically disabled or rendered inefiective.

The purpose is also to provide, in conjunction with the check-printing mechanism, a slip-printing arrangement which while inoperative when the check mechanism is operative will be brought into play when the check-printing mechanism is disabled or rendered inefiective.

In order that the purposes of my invention may be thoroughlyamderstood at the outset, a business system will be briefly explained wherein a machine having the functions above indicated will be useful: Ina hotel having both a bar and caf or grill-room a cash-register is used at the bar, not'to receive cash, "but for issuing checks showing the amounts of purchases which are registered and indicated, and these checks go to the customer to be then taken to a cashier, who

receives the money'to the amount of thechecks. At the same time slips will be em- M ployed in the cafe or grill-room upon which will be written the items 'of orders for food. In connection with these latter transactions there will be no occasion for the issuanceof checks from the machine. Still it is of course necessary that the machine register the amounts represented by. these slips, and hence it isdesirable that .the machine be equipped for receiving the slips and printing upon them the totals of items written thereon while adding them into the counters. When the machine is operated to print upon these inserted slips, the check-printing mechanism is not necessary. The adaptability of my invention as above outlined to this kind of a system will be apparent.

' In the present instance I have shown my ,invention applied to such a cash-register as llustrated in the patent to Thomas Carroll, No. 754,049, dated March 8, 1904, in which register a hand-lever moves along a scale to position one of a number of counters carried upon a reel, so that in the 'regular operation of the machine this counter will receive the registration- It is by means of the manipulation of this hand-lever that the machine is adjusted to the particular kind or character of transaction to be made.

In the accompanying drawings, whichform a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a-machine of the type illustrated in the patent above mentioned in side elevation with the hood removed. Fig. Z sl ows the samemachine in side elevation ,but viewed from the opposite. end and the casing of the printing mechanism removed. Fig. 2

shows certain gearing of this printing mechanism detached in rear elevation. 'Fig- 3 is a section taken from front to back of the machine, but with many parts omitted, this view simply serving to illustrate the connection between a bank of amount-keys and a t e-carrying wheel. Fig. 4 is a sectional si e elevation of part of the printing .mech anism, including the particular devices for carrying out the present invention.

It will not be necessary to go into a detailed description of the register proper.

or this reference may be had to the prior patent mentioned. It will be sufficient to state that in the type of 'inachine illustrated there are a number of banks of keys, and for each bank there will he an oscillatory registering-segment the extent of whose excul'r ermost of a series of nested sleeves 8, and the certain amount-keys have been depressed sion in an operation of the machine will del pend upon the particular key operated.

' In. Fig. 3 the numeral 2 designates amountkeys of a bank, and 3 the oscillatory s eg ment. This segment is coupled, through the medium of a slotted crank-arrn 4, with one of a series of nested sleeves 5 on a shaft 5", whichcarries a toothed segment 6, Fig. 4, at the right-h and end of the machine. Similar segmentsare affixed to the several'sleeves, as shown in patent above mentioned. The segment 6 is in mesh with a pinion 7 on the outother segments mesh with similar pinions on the other sleeves and the shaft 8, which supports them. This shaft carries the units of-cents type-wheel 9, Fig. 2, and similar type-wheels for tens of cents, units of dollars, and tens of dollars are carried by the three surrounding sleeves. It will be sutliciently obvious, without further description, that these printing-wheels will be adjusted to correspond with the depressed amount-keys. The innermost one of the sleeves 8 carries a special type carrier for printing department indicia.

At the left-hand side or end of the machine outside of the main frame is journaled a rota- .table reel 10, Fig. 1, which carries a series of counters 11. Any one of these counters may be brought into operative relation with the mechanism of the cash-register, so as to take the registration which is eliected after and when the machine is fully operated; The adjustment. or positioning of the reel is effected by manipulating a hand-lever 12,

this lever havin a bell-crankformation and being connectec by a link 13 with the reel.

This hand-lever is also connected by a link '15 with a crank-arm 1-6 on a shaft 17, carrying a cam-plate 16 for reciprocating a link 16*,

coupled to a cranloarm 16", connected with the shaft 5*, so asto rock the same and position the special type-carrier to accord with the adjustment of the lever 12. The latter works along a scale on the front of the machine, which will have designations for the dilierent kinds of transactions.

Proceeding now to a more detailed description of the printer, reference will be first had to Fig. 2. The printing wheels or disks 9 appear here in side elevation, so that only the outermost one ofthe series is actually visible, this type-wheel coacting with the units-of-cents bank of keys. It will be suliiciently understood without further illustration that behind this type-wheel there will be a sufiicient number of similar wheels for coacting with the other banks of amount-keys and an innermost typewvheel for printing the special designation for the transaction,

this being the type-wheel heretofore mentioned as suitably coupled to the settingduplicated, so that a line of type presented at one side from which to take an impression will beduplicated at the opposite side. The arrangement in this class of machines provides for these impressions being taken at the topandthe bottom of the type-wheels, and the numeral 18 designates a platen mounted to reciprocate vertically in suitable slideways for cooperation with the lower sides of the type-wheels. This platen carries a knife-blade 19, which cooperates with a fixed blade 20, and the laten is reciprocated by a lever 21, pivote at its rear end to the main frame of the machine and having at an intermediate point a pin 22 for cooperation with a box-cam 23. The numeral 24 designates a roll ofsuitable paper from which checks can be cut, and this strip is led down through a curved guideway 25, pivotally mounted. upon the main frame. A pair of feed-rollers 26 27 are journaled upon the main frame so as to receive the strip from said guideway 25 and deliver it between the blades 19 20 of the cutter, the strip then passing between the platen 18 and the type carriers. The said l eed 'ollers are o eratively connected by intermeshing gear-w eels 28 2!) and are driven through a train of gearing which connects them with the operating crank-handle 30 of the machine. The box-cam 23, heretofore mentioned, is coma complete revolution of the latter produced by the turning of the crank-handle 30 the lever 21 will be twice raised and lowered, first to ink and then to print. The bearings for the lower feed-roller 27 are adjustable so that cooperative relation between the platen and the type-wheels may be destroyed. This feed-roller is journaled upon an eccentric bearing 3], which is formed upon the su porting-sh aft 32, and the latter is mounted in the main framework so as to be capable of oscillation. It will thus be seen that by oscillating this shaft the feed-roller and-the box-cam 23 can he raised and lowered. This not only controls the relation between the platen 18 and the type-wheels, but also controls the relation between the feed-roller 27 and its mate 26. All of this construction is well known, but is described here in detail because the present invention is directly applied to this part of the mechanism. Turning on and off the check-feed by means of a knob rotatively engaged withthe supporting-shaft is'very well known. The present invention, however, provides for this supporting-shaft'being rocked or oscillated as an accompaniment to certain adjustments of the setting-lever. This is effected through the following connections: The shaft 17, heretofore mentioned as being connected through crank-andlink devices to the settinglever, extends entirely across the machine lever. The type upon each of the wheels is from the setting-lever side to the printer side,

poundedwith the lower feed-roller 27, and in seasas and just outside the main frame on the printer side of the machine said shaft has affixed.

embrace the shaft 17, which thus constitutes.

a guide for the link in' its reciprocations.

The rear end of the link 37 (see Fig. 4) is.

- coupled to a short crank-arm 39 on the shaft 32;

The different positions of the setting-lever are definitely fixed by means of a notched plate 40, which in the resent instance has six notches, the settingever being equipped with a spring-catch (see broken lines, Fig. 1)

to engage in the notches in a well-known manner. Now it will be understood that the segmental plate 33 always moves with the setting-lever. In the machine illustrated so long as the setting-lever is moved within the range of the upper four notches of the plate 40 the roller-equipped pin 38 occupies the portion 34 of the cam-slotin the segmental plate 33, and obviously the link 37 stands forward and the shaft 32 consequently is turned forward, with the result that the feed-rollers 26 27 are adjusted to feed thecheck-strip to the printer. However, in passing downwardly from the fourth to the fifth notch of the plate 40 the settinglever causes the angular part 35 of the camslot in the segmental plate 33 to traverse the pin 38, with the result that the link 37 is forced rearwardly. When the setting-lever is confined to its range of movement comprising the lower two notches of the plate 40, the pin 38 occupies the portion 36 of the camslot. Hence it follows that so long as the settin -lever is adjusted within the range of these ower two notches the checkfeed will;

be interrupted, because when pthe link 37 moved rearward the shaft 32 was turned 27 from the feed-roller 26. Furthermore,

. the lowering of the box-cam 23 destroys-the cooperative relation between the platen 18 and the type-wheels. Uponthe return of the setting-lever to the upper part of its' range of movement of course the conditions firstabove described are reestablished. It may be added that the upper feed-roller 26 carries type for printing on the check-strip as it passes between the rollers, and these latter constitute a printing-couple, as well as do the type-wheels and platens.

It will thus be seen that in so far as the invention aims to provide for controlling the this it is proposed to provide for the printing Cpin 38, which occupies the cam-' issuance of checks by the adjustments of the setting-lever the construction above described supplies the desideratum. Itwill be remembered, however, that in addition to of slips whenever the check mechanism is renderedinefiective. This rinting of checks is done on the up er side 0 the t e-wheels. The platen for this purpose is in t e form of a roller 41, mounted upon the forward end of a lever 42, pivoted at an intermediate point and equipped at its rear end with a pin 43. The vibrations of the lever 42 are effected through the agency of a box-cam 44, embracing the pin 43 and compounded with one of the gears 45 of the train which connects the feed-rollers to the operating crank-handle of.

the machine. The said lever is supported by a shaft 46 being journaled u on an eccentric 47, which is part of said sha t, and this shaft is capable of oscillation, so as to raise or lower the lever. When elevated 'on its .eccentric bearing, the vibrations of the lever 42 produced by the box-cam 44'will not carry the platen 41 against the type-wheels, but when loweredby the turnin forward-of the shaft 46 the lever, with its p aten, is brought into cooperative relation with the typewheels. Inorder to produce thisrelation as an accompaniment to the disabling of the check mechanism-,a short crank-arm 48 on the shaft 46 is connected b a link 49 with a rearwardly-extending cran -arm 50 on the shaft 32, which is shown as inte a1 with the arm 39, the two formin a be -crank. It follows that when the lin '37 is moved rearwardly and the lower feed-rollerconse uently displaced the link 49 is moved upwar ly and the shaft 46 turned forward, so that the lever 42 is lowered sl' htly,

A casing for the printing mechanism is outlined in broken lines inFi 2, and of course pI'OV1Sl0I1 18 made for the issuance from. said casing of the checks as they are rinted and out off underneath the t 'e-whee s, and proover the type-Wheels to receive an imprint. by the operation of the platen 4 1. In order to insure retaining an' inserted slip at a fixed position during the printing, I provide a holding device of the following description: A two-armed lever is pivoted at 52 on a bearing-pin projecting from the main frame, and

the forwardly-extending arm 53 of this lever to permit free insertion'of the slip. In the 1 0 1 IO vision is also made fort 'e insertion of a slip I operation ofthe machine, howeverythe cam 57, actin upon. therearwardly-extending arm 56. said lever, presses the foot upon the slipjduring the operation of printing.

The. arrangement for alining the typewheels and for inking the same is exactly the same as shown in the said prior patent and forms no art of the may be a ded that t e pivoted check-strip guide carries an inkin -roller 26 for the type of the roller 26, an

' sents only one form of embodiment of my invention and that it is capable of being car- :ried out in various ways.

claims which follow essential elements are recited without restriction to details of con-' f struction incidental to the embodiment of the invention in the particular form of machine which I have chosen to illustrate and describe in the present case.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is ing the machine for the accounting of dif- 1. Ina machine ofthe character described,

the combination with a printing-couple,

means for bringing together the two members of said couple for effecting an impression,"

and man'ip'ulative'selecting means for adj ustferently-designated transactions; of means for preventing the bringing together of saidtwo members of the printingcouple as an accompaniment to certain adjustments of the machine.

2. In a machine of the character described, the combination with a'duplex printing mechanism the divisions of which are alternately operablefand manipulative selecting means for adjusting the machine for differently-clesignated transactions; of means for disabling one division of the printing mechanism as an accompaniment to certain adjustments of the machine and for simultaneously rendering effective the other division of said printing mechanism. I

3. In a machine of the character described,

- the combination with a duplex printing mechanism the divisions of which are alter-- nately operable, and manipulative selecting means for adjusting the machine for differently-de'signated transactions; of means for disabling one division of'the-printing mechanism as an accompaniment to certain ad justments of the machine and for simultaneously rendering effective the other division of resent invention. It.

Hence in the bers of said couple, and a manipulative selecting member differentially adjustable to various positions for differently-designated transactions; of means for disabling the printer as an accompaniment to the taking up of'certain positions of adjustment by said manipulative member.

5. In a machine of the character described thecombination with a printing-couple, meansfor bringing together the two members of said couple, and a manipulative selecting member movable to different positions of adjustment for designating different transactions; of means for rendering the printer inoperative when the said selecting member is in any one of aplurality of certain positions in itsrange 'of movement.

6. In a machine of the character described the combination with a printer including dupleX impressionv members each adjustable into and out 'of operative relation with the type, and a manipulative selecting member adjustable to various positions for differentlydesignated transactions; of connections between said manipulative member and one of the impression members of the printerfor rendering the latter inoperative'in certain adjustments of the manipulative member,

and connections between the two impression members of the printer rendering one oper ative when the other is disabled, substantially as described. 4 7. In a machine of the character described the combination of a printing mechanism comprising type and platen members with means for bringing the same into contact to produce an impression; a lever movable differentially for different transactions; and means operated by said lever in certain of its adjustments, to prevent the contact of said two members of the printing mechanism. 8. In a cash-register designed to issue a printed check or to print upon an inserted slip, the combination of a set of type-carriers from which impressions can be taken at different places under one adjustment; platens juxtapositioned to the type-carriers at these places; means for vibrating the platens adjustable to prevent cooperation between the same and the type-carriers; connections between the platen-vibrating means for rendering one effective when the other is ineffective; manipulative selecting means for adjusting the machine for differently-designated transactions; and connections between said means and the platen-vibrating means for controlling the alternating effectiveness thereof.

9. In a cash-register designed to issue a printed checker to print upon an inserted slip, the combination of a set of ty e-carriers from which impressions can be ta (en at different places under one adjustment; platens juxtapositioned to the type-carriers at these places; means for vibrating the platens adjustable to prevent cooperation between the slip, the combinationof a'set of t juxtapositioned to the type-carriers at these places; means for vibrating the platens adjustable to prevent cooperation between the same and the type-carriers; connections between the latenfvibrating means for rendering one e ective when the other is ineflective; a lever for adjusting the machine for difierentl -designated transactions and connections etween said lever and the platenvibrating means for controlling the alternating effectiveness thereof.

11. In a machine of the character described the combination of strip-feed rollers geared together, an. eccentric bearing for oneof said rollers movable to destroy its cooperative relation with the other; a selecting-lever; and

connections between the same and the eccentric-bearing whereby the feed is suspended when the lever is, in certain positions.

12. In a machine of the character described,

, the combination of strip-feed rollers geared together, an. eccentric bearing for onefof said ro lers movable to destroy its cooperative relation with the other; a selecting-lever; a pivoted cam-slotted plate geared thereto; and ,a link connection between the slotted plate and the eccentric bearing substantially I as and for the purpose described.

13. In a machine of the character described the combination with a printing-couple comprising a set of t e-carriers and a reciprocatory platen an operating-lever; and a strip-feed mechanismcomprlsing a pair of rollers geared. together, an oscillatory eccentric bearing for one of said rollers, and a cam compounded with said ecentrically-mounted roller and engaged with the platen-lever to vibrate the same; of a link cranked to the eccentric bearing of the feed-roller; a swinging cam-plate engaged with said link toreciprocat'e the same; and 'a selecting-lever connected with said cam-plate.

14. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a printer comprising type-carriers; a reciprocatory platen and its operating-lever; a second laten-carrying lever; a'cam for: vibrating t e latter; an oscillatory eccentric bearing for said lever; feedrollers geared together; an oscillatory eccentric bearing for one of said rollers; a cam compounded with said eccentrically-mounted roller to vibrate the first-named platen-lever;

a link cranked to the two eccentric bearings; a selecting-lever and connections between the same and one of said eccentric bearings.

15. In a machine'of the character described, the combination of a printer comprislng type-carriers a reciprocatoryplaten and its I operating-lever; a second laten-carrying lever; a cam for vibratingt e latter; an oscillatory eccentric bearing for said lever; feedrollers geared together; an oscillatory eccen tric bearing for one of said rollers a cam compounded 'with said eccentrically-mounted I roller to vibrate the first-named platen-lever; a link cranked to the two eccentric bearlngs;

a link cranked to one of the latter; a swingin cam-plate engaged with said last-named llifii; and a selecting-lever geared to said camate. P 16. In a machine of the character described, the combination with a slip-printing mechanism, of a vibratory slip-holder spring-retracted, and a cam in the operating-gearing of the machine arranged to press the holder upon the slip. 5

17. In a cash-register, the combination with an operating mechanismand a lurality of counters controlled thereby, o I duplex printing devices'alternately operable, and a manipulative device for predetermining on which counter a transaction shall be entered and rendering one or the otherprinting device operative and the remaining device inoperative.

18. In a cash-register, the combination with an operatin 'mechanism, of a plurality of counters and uplex printing devices, al controlled by said operating mechanism, a manipulative device common to the'counters and printing'devices, and means controlled by said device for adjusting any counter and its corresponding prmting device to .operative relation with the operating mechanism.

'19. In a cash-re ister, the combination with a plurality o counters and duplex printing devices alternately o arable, of a manipulative setting device or adjusting one counter for operation, said device also determining'which printing device shall be operated. v

20. In a cash-register, the combination with an operating mechanism and a plurality of counters, of. alternately-operative printing devices, a manipulative means for predeterwhich counter shall be operated byv the operating mechanism, said means also controlling the operative relation of the printin devices to said mechanism.

anism, and means operated by said manipulativedevice for throwingthe printing devices 1nto and out ofpperative relation with theaoperatin mechanism, said means constructed t0 al low operation of only one printing device at an operation.

22. In a cash-register, the combination with an operating mechanism, of a plurality of counters operated thereby, a manipulative device for setting any counter for operation, a duplex printing mechanism, the divisions of which are alternately operable, means for disabling one division of the printing mechanism, as an accom animent to the setting of certain counters or 0 eration and for rendering effective the other ivision, and for reversing the printing conditions as an accompaniment to the setting of certain other counters for operation.

to eiiect an impression; of manipulative setting means to adjust the machine for the accounting of differently -designated transactions, and means operated by the movement of said means to certain positions for pre ;venting the bringing together of the two members of the prlntln -cou is.

In testimony whereo Ia my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' i JQSEPH 'P. CLEAL. .Witnesses:

JOHN A. Wnnmnn, JOHN J. UNGVARY. 

